Apple Podcast Rankings - France - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in France

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in France. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 18 Oct 2026

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10/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 108

Frequency: every 23 days

Duration: 00:33:04

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. Making Waves (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. RTBF (2 shows)

5. Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Audiomeans (14 shows)

3. Ausha (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	58	Audiomeans	73
7	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
8	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
9	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
10	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
11	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
12	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
13	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
14	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
15	Françoise Combes, les grands mystères de l'espace	RTL	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	48
16	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
17	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	36	Octopus	59
20	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées	Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
22	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	297	Spotify for Podcasters	32
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
25	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	35	Simplecast	69
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
27	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	44	Audiomeans	73
28	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
30	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
31	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
32	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
33	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
34	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
35	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	18	Acast	90
36	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
37	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
38	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
39	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	520	Audiomeans	84
40	Réel média	Réel média	Society & Culture	8	Acast	43
41	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
42	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	54	Ausha	53
43	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
44	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
45	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
46	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
47	Les Éclaircies	Marine Lucas	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	48
48	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
49	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	24	Acast	58
50	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
51	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	116	Acast	73
52	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
53	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
54	Les icebergs ÉPOUVANTABLES de Creepy Machine	Creepy Machine	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
55	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	119	BBC	38
56	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
57	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
58	Les Abysses de la BIS	RSU Radio Sorbonne Université	Society & Culture	8	Acast	63
59	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	33	Spotify for Podcasters	22
61	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
62	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
63	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
64	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
65	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
66	Le bon angle	Manon Marques	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	63
67	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	970	Spreaker	64
68	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	Verts - Le Podcast	Groupe Linear	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	53
70	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
71	Van Dis Ongefilterd	Atlas Contact / Adriaan van Dis	Society & Culture	77	Omny Studio	83
72	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	36	Podcastics	63
73	Identités	Dakitse ou Eloge	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	53
74	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
75	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
76	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
77	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
78	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
79	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
80	Morgana	Storielibere.fm	Society & Culture	58	Megaphone	48
81	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
82	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
83	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
84	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	74	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	Chamonix : Terre de guides	Lucille Meriaux	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	42
86	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	85	Acast	69
87	Iconique	xavier del fuego	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	59
88	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
89	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	131	Acast	43
90	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	13	Spreaker	74
91	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
92	Pépin, change ton regard sur le handicap	Pauline Elharar	Society & Culture	48	Ausha	73
94	Prenderse Fuego: Las Voces de Pedro Lemebel	Podium Podcast Chile	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	38
95	Figures Franco-Allemandes	DFJA/CFAJ \| Deutsch-Französischer Jugendausschuss e.V. / Commission Franco-Allemande de la Jeunesse	Society & Culture	23	Unknown	53
96	Petites histoires des grands ensembles	Making Waves	Society & Culture	17	Transistor	53
97	C'est sa vie - podcast franco-allemand	OFAJ - DFJW	Society & Culture	4	Spreaker	43
98	Faire des sciences avec Star Wars Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
99	Georges Brassens... j’ai rendez-vous avec Vous	Europe 1	Society & Culture	12	Audiomeans	43
100	Lignes de Force — Pourquoi Pas Now	Lifsa Maabo	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	48

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